Can you tell us more about what you mean by connect? Send RPC commands? Open TCP/IP connections? All between the main machine and a virtual machine? Send coins? Connect as in link addresses in one wallet to another via transaction analysis?
If one of the former can you ssh between machines? Are ports open? Each has its own ip?
Yes, The wallets must connect to one another, mining has to be possible, transactions have to be able to send and be verified by the miner, the machine runing the VM will also by mining by a simple Scrypt miner that is integrated in all coins at launch.
The type that you simply enter "setgenerate true -1"
Send RPC commands? Open TCP/IP connections?
What are my options here, i only have 1 machine.
Both the main machine and the VM are running windows 10.